Word: teapots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Oliver K. Bovard, 73, austere, softspoken, longtime managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and power behind his paper's famed crusades against political and industrial corruption (Teapot Dome, Tom Pendergast, Union Electric) ; of bronchial pneumonia; in St. Louis. He paid his men well, fired them only for indifference or disloyalty, ruled his roost with icy justice. One of Bovard s ex-copyreaders, fired for sneaking P-D copy to a public utility before publication, once asked for his job back, pleading that he "had to live." Asked Bovard...
...about education. The Undergraduate Organizational Committee on the General Education Report has stormed against "the apparent disregard of student opinion" shown by the Dean's office and the Faculty in its consideration of the General Education proposals--but the whole thing has been something of a tempest in a teapot...
Patrice Munsel, 20-year-old Metropolitan Opera soprano, was the principal tea leaf in a teapot tempest of publicity just before she made her West Coast debut at Hollywood Bowl. The United Press reported the Met aswoon with shame because pictures had been published of her in a bra-suit. Manager Edward Johnson denied it, peered at the picture, purred, "She looks nice." Clucked Singer Munsel: "I thought it made me look a little bulky in spots...
Famed for his work as prosecutor in the Teapot Dome scandal, genial, wide-mouthed Owen Roberts was a big-time Philadelphia corporation lawyer when Herbert Hoover called him to the high court in 1930. Promptly he found himself the deciding vote between the right and left factions of the pre-Roosevelt tribunal, as often as not sided with the left's dissenters. But as the turbulent 30s went by and seven Roosevelt appointees took their places on the bench, he became the court's chief defender of precedent and legal stability...
...note in it precisely the position of each chair and its occupant's name. If he nervously pulled a handkerchief from his pocket, a cascade of carefully graded pennies, shillings and half crowns was likely to stream onto the floor. At this, he would hurriedly fill the teapot and pace up & down swinging it, for ten minutes exactly -"he claimed the tea was better...